Cooks Quotes - Page 37

• Now Momma's done away with the old black kettle she used to cook in when I was just littleAnd the door ain't sprung on her electric rangeThat little old farm and home we had it ain't there no more and that's too badFolks are doing away with the simple things.

  Dolly Parton

  Home, Simple, Doors

  "Song: "Old Black Kettle" ("My Tennessee Mountain Home")". March 26, 1973.

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• London has changed enormously and so have the English in the past decade. They're more like Americans and more like Europeans, too. They're always eating out, and when they're at home they don't cook the way they did ten years ago. They're all sitting around in cafés, like the Continentals, drinking coffee and chattering and watching the world go by.

  Doris Lessing

  Drinking, Coffee, Home

  Interview with Jonah Raskin, progressive.org. November 19, 2013.

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• She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.

  George Meredith

  Sweet, Rawness, Comedy

  George Meredith (1956). “The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• The saddest thing in life is to marry a woman who looks like a cook--and isn't.

  Evan Esar

  Things In Life, Cooking, Looks

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• I tell ya, my wife's a lousy cook. After dinner, I don't brush my teeth. I count them.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Wife, Teeth, Dinner

  "It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect But Plenty of Sex and Drugs". Book by Rodney Dangerfield, p. 18, 2004.

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• I am pretty health-conscious, so when my girlfriend and/or I make dinner--no, I don't have a cook!--we choose the healthier options: lean meats, steamed veggies, fish, etc. Of course, there are always those cravings for the "bad foods" that I do give in to once in a while!

  Tiger Woods

  Girlfriend, Giving, Dinner

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think sometimes that people assume because I'm on television I'm an expert, but I think the whole point of what I do is that I'm not and I don't have any training. My approach isn't about a fancy ingredient or style. I cook what I love to eat.

  Nigella Lawson

  Thinking, People, Style

  "British Sensation Lawson Says Cooking Should Be About Fun, Family". Oakland Tribune, June 04, 2003.

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• I think it's very attractive when people cook. So I don't wear sweatpants. When you dress sexy to cook, too, it's like, damn, I got a girl who can cook and look like that? And I always have really cute aprons.

  Blake Lively

  Cute, Girl, Sexy

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Like every other rich asshole, I have a cook and he's in my trailer making food all the time.

  Adam Sandler

  Rich, Trailers

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Food trucks give creative entrepreneurs the ability to cook with freedom and make what they love, meaning that they can create highly specialized meals without having the high overhead costs of running a restaurant.

  Homaro Cantu

  Running, Giving, Entrepreneur

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• Cultures that may seem as durable as stone can break like glass, leaving all the things that held them together unattended. I believe that the craftsman, the artist, the cook, and the silversmith are peacemakers. They instill grace; they lull the world to calm.

  Anthony Shadid

  Believe, Artist, Glasses

  Anthony Shadid (2012). “House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My husband is the cook at our house. I can make dessert and salad, but I stay away from meals. He makes amazing omelets, fish, and grilled vegetables like Brussels sprouts and cauliflower.

  Dylan Lauren

  Husband, Vegetables, House

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• I cook every chance in my pot. And only when it is cooked through do I welcome it as my food.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Chance, Welcome, Pot

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• It must be hard to cook if you anthropomorphisize your vegetables.

  Bill Watterson

  Vegetables, Cooking, Hard

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• Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,to the length of sixpence.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Kings, Men, Sovereign

  'Sartor Resartus' (1834) bk. 1, ch. 5

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• It was so hot today I saw a robin dipping his worm in Nestea.It was so hot today I saw a pigeon walking in the shadow of Orson Welles.It was so hot today that Burger King was singing, "if you want it your way, cook it yourself.

  Johnny Carson

  Kings, Singing, Shadow

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• Time comes when every man's got to feel something new--when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Men, Growing, Way

  Clare Boothe Luce (1966). “The Women”, p.25, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.

  Fergus Henderson

  Mean, People, Fusion

  "Table talk". Interview with Rachel Dixon, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2008.

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• There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living — cook books and detective stories.

  Rex Stout

  Book, Writing, Two

  "Royal Decree: Conversations with Rex Stout". Book by John McAleer, p.3, 1983.

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• I'd love to say I'm an accomplished cook, but I don't have any signature dishes. I'm good at breakfast -- I make great eggs. My father gave me a little recipe. It's all in the seasoning. But it's a Greek secret. I won't give it away!

  Jennifer Aniston

  Father, Eggs, Giving

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• I can tell in two minutes if I should hire someone in the kitchen. Two minutes. It's his desire. It's that open-eyed, attentive expression. If he doesn't have it ... I mean, I can teach a chimp how to cook dinner. But I cannot teach a chimp how to love it.

  Mario Batali

  Mean, Expression, Two

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• The very common error of young or unconfident cooks is to keep putting more of their own personal ideology into a plate until there's so much noise that you really can't even hear a tune. You can say more in an empty space than you can in a crowded one.

  Mario Batali

  Errors, Space, Cooking

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• How terribly hard and almost impossible it is to tell the truth. More than anything else, the artist in us prevents us from telling aught as it really happened. We deal with the truth as the cook deals with meat and vegetables.

  Eric Hoffer

  Artist, Vegetables, Meat

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

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• Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. "Thy words," said he, "Aristodemus, smell of the apron.

  Plutarch

  Son, Smell, Aprons

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.203

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• Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.

  Aristophanes

  Winning, People, Together

  Aristophanes (2016). “The Knights”, p.16, Aristophanes

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